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said street, and deepen said falls on the side thereof adjoining

said street, if the said street be given up to the city.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That John E. Howard, William

Commis-

Gibson, William Cooke, William M'Mechen, Henry Thompson,

sioners to
lay out

John Hillen, Joseph Townsend, Nathaniel Williams and John

streets, &c.

McHenry, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners,

who shall cause to be surveyed and laid off, within the limits of

the city of Baltimore, all such streets, lanes and alleys, as they

shall deem proper and convenient, and cause the same to be

marked with so many and such durable land marks as they

shall think necessary, and return plots with such survey and

Their

location, with proper explanations, to the register of the city of

powers.

Baltimore, and the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be by

them respectively filed and preserved as other records of their

offices; and the said commissioners may employ such engineer

or surveyor as they may see fit, and a secretary ; and the ex-

penses incurred in the execution of the duties hereby enjoined,

shall be paid by the mayor and city council of Baltimore.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners be,

Their

and they are hereby authorized, to contract for and lay out such

powers.

and so many parcels of ground within the said city, as they

shall judge convenient and necessary to be used for public pur-

poses ; and if the price demanded therefor shall be deemed

reasonable by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, they are

hereby authorized to purchase the same at the expense of the

city, and such lots or parcels of ground shall be conveyed to

the said mayor and city council, for the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the commissioners afore-

May name

said be, and they are hereby authorized, to assign one name

streets.

to any street, which, in the whole or in parts, may have ac-

quired different names, and when two or more streets may be

known by the same name to alter or change them, so that no

two streets have one name; and also to alter the names of such

as in their judgment, decorum shall require ; and the names so

given of all the other streets, shall be written on the plots thereof

to be returned to the said commissioners, by which names they

shall thereafter be called and known.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That a majority of the aforesaid

Vacancies

board of commissioners shall be competent to exercise all its

and quorum

powers; and vacancies happening therein, shall be supplied

from time to time by the mayor and presidents of the first and

second branches of the city council, or any two of them, for the

time being ; and that so much of the act relating to streets in

the city and precincts of Baltimore, as is supplied by, or is in-

consistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is

hereby repealed ; Provided however, that where the commis-

Certain
streets

sioners, in pursuance of the said act, may have laid out any

confirmed.